Today all across America, families will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. I love this holiday – even more in some ways than Christmas. As much as I love Christmas and what it represents, the holiday itself has become so commercialized and packed with obligations that...

This morning I awoke early, as I always do, but in a strange bed in a strange city (I’m up in New York for a business trip) and in a seemingly strange world. My smartphone gave me some shocking news: Donald Trump is going to be the next U.S. president. The bombastic...

Why do so few people just sit on their porches and watch the world anymore? That question came to me the other day when I went to visit my elderly parents at the old Pennsylvania farmhouse where I grew up. My folks are in their eighties now and are fortunate enough to...

Dear Self, First, an apology. Yesterday I said some pretty mean things to you. It was Monday and I don’t particularly like Mondays, and work was nuts, and I had so much to do, and then I had to go and jam my forefinger that’s still sore from smashing it with a hammer...

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on efforts by school districts to use new technology to secure themselves against a repeat of the 2012 tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed by a deranged shooter. This stat from...

While vacationing in Spring Lake, New Jersey last week, I had the kind of experience that sears the heart of a peaceable man (or woman). My girlfriend and I were walking the beach early one morning when we noticed a colorful “Shaka Tour” tour bus parked along the road...